Cynthia Thurlow | Why Muscle is the Key to Longevity

Young muscle, like my teenagers, looks like the filet. We want to look like the filet and not the ribeye. The key about why muscle is so important and why I talk so much about protein is that muscle is this organ of longevity. And what's interesting to me is that when we talk about what are the mechanisms of why we want to maintain muscle mass. Number one, it helps with insulin sensitivity. Muscle is a glucose thing. It is. That is actually the first site of where we become inflow resistant. So that is very important to understand. How do we combat this? Number one is we have strength training. Number two, we've got to make sure we're eating enough protein. So protein is satiating, so it keeps you feeling full. It is going to be very, very beneficial for nearly every single thing that you can think of in your body.